Munich, 2014. Talented German fashion designer Julia has finally achieved great success. After many years of hard work, she won the Milan Fashion Week. But the price of such hard-won success is too high - no personal life, always only work, not a single opportunity to slow down and look around. It was at this moment that an unfamiliar old German man appeared in her life, introducing himself as her paternal grandfather. But Julia's father is Italian...Milan, 1954. Vincent, a young German engineer, arrives at a car factory to test out a new Italian model. Least of all does he think that this trip will not only change his fate, but will also be the beginning of the love and drama of his whole life. Young Juliet, who moved to Milan from a remote Sicilian village, is full of hopes and even ambitions to become a fashion designer, but she grew up in the shadow of medieval traditions. Sicily, 1968. Young Vincenzo leaves Munich for his parents' homeland, where time seems to have stopped. The last summer of his childhood, and neither he nor his relatives yet know that in a few years an incredible drama will shatter their difficult but prosperous life into the smallest fragments.A great German-Italian family saga, spanning three generations, two countries, three different attitudes to life, three dramas. The story of family, love, betrayal and redemption unfolds against the picturesque backdrop of the vineyards of Sicily, the tumultuous political life of Germany and the splendor of fashionable Milan. The novel of one of the most popular German writers today is full of subtle irony about the Germans and love for Italy.